TEAM ETHANOL LOG

[recollecters]

TEAM ETHANOL

After that strange Retrospec post, you may be wondering how to contact this "technician". Luckily, your phone or whatever device you have handy to check the network chooses that exact second to go haywire... Team Ethanol roster: Almedha, Augustine Sycamore, Chuuya Nakahara, Heine Rammsteiner, Izumi Sena, Kazuma Kiryu, Nui Harime, Peko Pekoyama, Rosalind Lutece, Weiss Schnee, Yukiko Amagi, Zaveid. On whatever device you use to view the retrospec application, you may note the following scrolling on the screen instead of the usual options: ALERT: CRITICAL TIME-SPACE ANOMALY ACTIVE. SEARCHING FOR ADMIN... SEARCHING FOR ADMIN... DESIGNATED ADMIN CANDIDATE: EMPLOYEE #91962 M. MAHONEY PLEASE INPUT AUTHORIZATION CODE. The prompt does not seem to be for you, however, as the text prompts continue to scroll, this time with some input. > ********************** ACCEPT ADMIN STATUS Y/N? > y DESIGNATE PROGRAM TO RUN. PLEASE BE ADVISED WE ARE SYSTEM CRITICAL. > run subroutine designation echolocation-alpha CONFIRMED. EMPLOYEES ACTIVE IN AREA: 2 > list employees EMPLOYEES ACTIVE: M. FITZWILLIAM LEVEL 0 ACCESS, INTERN M. MAHONEY FULL SYSTEM ACCESS, ADMIN > search for alternative assets CONFIRMED. SENDING ALTERNATIVE ASSET LIST. Names scroll by on the screen. and look, there goes yours! It seems like someone is manually picking and choosing from a list of every Retrospec user who didn't disappear into the void, and several names queue up. > initialize support team CONFIRMED. TEAM DESIGNATION? > ethanol CONFIRMED. TEAM ETHANOL MISSION PARAMETERS? PLEASE BE ADVISED SYSTEM ENERGY LEVELS ARE CRITICALLY LOW. > make contact with sysadmin > contact point entrance 6 > temporary access level 1 granted CONFIRMED. MISSION PARAMETERS SET. TEMPORARY ACCESS LEVEL 1 GRANTED. The screen clears itself, and instead of the familiar retrospec logo, there is simply TEAM ETHANOL as a designation. the application will refuse to show anything other than a map, with one point highlighted in red. it is, of course, up to team members to decide whether or not they approach the access point. Team Ethanol's access point is in the Recollé Graveyard. Team members will find the grave of "G. Mahoney" will move aside to reveal catacombs so long as they approach it in groups of two or more team members. Only Team Ethanol team members can see or enter the catacombs at this time. Please see the Objective 1 toplevel for more information on what they can see when they travel further down the tunnels. This is the Team Ethanol Event Log. You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log. Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions & Participation Reporting. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links; the moderators will try to keep up with threads, but as we are currently running several teams with participation, we require you to keep us up to date! Please read each of the toplevels and instructions! The schedule for Team Ethanol is as follows: WEEK 1: Objective 1; CLEAR: M. Mahoney WEEK 2: Objective 2; IC mission briefing; CLEAR: W. Guo WEEK 3: Objective 3; IC mission briefing 24th: Objective 3 closes (8PM EST), Final city-wide log posted (9PM EST) Objectives will be given in mod toplevels to this post with instructions; please check the log currently for Objective 1 to see how this will work. NPC interactions will be rnged from your team roster once per week, and toplevels for those will also be posted, although all team members can hear/see these interactions!

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MOD QUESTIONS

[recollecters]

Please direct any Team Ethanol specific questions here! If you have general questions for the month they should go to the Monthly Plotting Post instead, thank you!

[doublesmall]

yes hello I'm here with your first dumb question: will gravity manipulation work to try to hold that door open at least for a while? or is this thing going to c'mon and slam no matter what?

[recollecters]

It might work once for Chuuya, but after that the door seems to level up and stubbornly slam shut! It is probably out to get him, specifically.

[recollecters]

Chuuya is being paged

[adoringpast]

can we just bomb that door open? like if sena can create one huge bomb that can make a hole on the door, would it work is that door that sturdy?

[recollecters]

Unfortunately, this will bounce the bomb back into the crypt with them, so. Please don't, Sena?? It seems to be a magical door! In fact, it is inscribed on the inside with glowing runes that light up if he starts to charge a bomb at it. Please take heed of the runes before you injure yourself, idols.

[eyestitch]

Is there a minimum level of, uh, success you would like to see for monster thread completion?

Like, for instance, say you have an emergency sewing kit and MAYBE a peacebonded weapon from a costume, and you realize at some point during the fight that you and the person you're with are either going to become lunch or skedaddle. Or incapacitate the monster, I guess, if you're feeling generous.

In short, would you guys like monster fight threads to include the monster being defeated, or is there some other metric y'all would like? Thanks in advance!

[judgementkazzy]

How dark are the catacombs once the door is closed?

[doublesmall]

so about other ways to try and break that door you already gave us a way to open--

no this is an organization question I'm sorry.

for exploration requests, do you prefer we complete a room thread with one partner/group before requesting info on another room? or can we request, say, x and y for room 1 and also y and z exploring room 2 at a different time, so we can have multiple threads going?

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[eyestitch]

Hello, mods! (Lucy? I think Lucy is the group 1 mod, but I don't want to break the illusion.) I'm back. I love you.

Sorry to expose my inner DND here, but the Pathfinder bestiary has me excited to use my investigation skill. Nui is on door duty outside the catacombs until it's time to go and figure out the room 12/13 puzzle. So she's outside being obnoxious in the graveyard. Is everything worth finding in the catacombs proper, or would there be stuff to look for were I to start an exploration thread for that (w/ someone else?)

(I will obviously go down and ask in the exploration box down there vvv if so.)

Thanks!

[burningblossoms]

Looking at the map, are the room connected to 5, 6, 19, and 20 accessible at this time?

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[adoringpast]

so

uh

is there phone reception in the catacombs

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[burningblossoms]

Since we are a little short on time, I figured asking here would be best.

With regards to the room Here that yukiko/rosalind/orion are currently exploring. What would lighting the torches do? And is there anything stopping yukiko from lighting up the room with her Persona in general?

[doublesmall]

QUICK QUESTION is room 13 going to be necessary for the objective to be complete? we're trying to get zaveid a partner for it since 12 is open but we've done fucked up, everyone oocly available is stuck underground and blair and i are v sorry

[doublesmall]

this isn't exactly a question I just wanted to check if week 2 participation is still supposed to be frozen, now that it's started! o/

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[eyestitch]

Hi there! Something really quick before we get into our exploration thread so I don't do anything stupid if there's a potential fight. Nui would have been able to keep her riot shield of kneecapping-Sena from week to week, right?

[adoringpast]

heyo mods! i'd just like to ask for clarifications about the lvl 2 access that the good doc gave to certain characters? does it come with any other responsibilities or are they really just monster bait? and how do they "track" the other members of the group, exactly?

[smothershadow]

Hello mods! I have a question about week 2's objective reporting. Would solving the puzzle in room 11 count for the primary objective or the secondary one?

[doublesmall]

whoops I actually have a question about picking protocols bc I think I might've misread/misunderstood here-- if they don't pick an ability as their weapon is it going to be ineffective?

brought to you by me checking other threads after and going 'shit was picking the gravity manipulation an option' bc I didn't think it was, gj teej

Unlimited Question Works, round... whatever number this is

[doublesmall]

quick question for objective 3 rooms! since there are still several left, are characters allowed to do two?

[smothershadow]

Can Birdmelia still talk?

[doublesmall]

mechanics question!! I just want to make sure I have a solid idea of it going into things so-- with chuuya's gravity powers being twice as strong, is this going to be just like a buff to how quickly and with how much force he can change gravity, or does it being more powerful extend to like, not needing direct physical content or something?

brought to you by me being like wait there wasn't actually a specific hard limit set on changing the direction/force of gravity beyond it requiring physical contact...

[originallutece]

SO. I think this is where I put this, but for the weapons issued at the end of week 3 - Ros'll be trading in her coin and going with a small pistol, something a little more old-fashioned than usual.

[sivard]

I think this is where I put it, but Zaveid will be trading in his coin for a battle pendulum to test it out.

[doublesmall]

FINAL QUESTION I PROMISE

since the end of this week works differently: did we actually clear our secondary this time around and was that for the npc info we got? I am probably just missing it but since I didn't find that anywhere you get me one more time ig